 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...Johnson] Vgl. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. by GB Hill, rev. by LF Powell (Oxford, 1934), II, 174: "Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones". Zu TEXT 24: 5 the other class] Whately bezieht sich hier auf die Klassifizierung der englischen Romanproduktion... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 366 pages
...indicates fully the subjectmatter and the exclusive aim of the avowed realist. " Sir," said Dr. Johnson, " there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all ' Tom Jones.' " EUSKINE : " Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." JOHNSON : " Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson... | |
 | Dennis Todd, Cynthia Wall, J. Paul Hunter - 2001 - 332 pages
...at a sponging-house.")1 Johnson, to return to the table-talk with Boswell, went on to assure him : '"Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one...Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Such brusque slights as these typify the curious story of Johnson's disparagement of Fielding. Earlier... | |
 | David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 pages
...currency of critical acclaim. Johnson repeatedly lauded Richardson at the expense of Henry Fielding -'Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all "Tom Jones" ' — and enshrined the novelist's prose in his Dictionarv, including ninetv-seven citations from Clarissa,... | |
 | 1893 - 240 pages
...meaning. " What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal ; " and he added — " Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones." Surely it would have been better had both these great writers admitted that they knew but very little,... | |
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Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 
